{"id":114,"date":"2001-07-05T11:03:12","date_gmt":"2001-07-05T19:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-08-15T22:13:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T06:13:10","slug":"second-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2001\/07\/05\/second-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Second wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>yesterday, i celebrated <i>my<\/i> independence. i rolled out of bed when i couldn&#8217;t stay in bed any longer, i baked a pan of brownies and ate one for breakfast, and i lazed about in my pajamas until well after noon.<!--my idea of cleaning my room was consolidating the piles of clothes into one mountain atop my bed. all of a sudden rima's room is cleaner than mine!--><\/p>\n<p>we sought <a href=\"javascript:alert('one thing i miss most about living by the ocean is the cool breeze. this side of town is gusts of hot air.');\" title=\"footnote\">air-conditioned spaces<\/a> later and ended up at the two-story <a href=\"javascript:alert('i was thisclose to buying a slip-and-slide');\" title=\"footnote\">target<\/a> and <a href=\"javascript:alert('anniversary party, which was pretty good, but a little too long');\" title=\"footnote\">the movies<\/a>. throughout my childhood i just assumed everything was closed on the fourth of july, because i never left the house. all the action took place on our block: barbeque in the backyard, sparklers on the driveway, fireworks display at the high school up the street. i had no idea that so many people went shopping and saw movies and ate out.<\/p>\n<p>at home, <a href=\"http:\/\/crushworthy.org\" title=\"the fabulous miss kiehl\">we<\/a> made ice cream sandwiches and sat in front of the fan and complained about the heat. after she left, i forced myself up and out of the house. past the lake, across the river, up a few hills and over to felix&#8217;s, where the party had been all day long. there was a jam session going on: U2 and nirvana and crowded house and the pretenders. in accompaniment: the distant crackling and booming of fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>on the way home, i sang teenage fanclub songs at the top of my lungs and gawked at the colors exploding in every direction. i came home and kept singing, dancing barefoot on the hardwood floors, making a total and utter fool of myself because nobody else was home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yesterday, i celebrated my independence. i rolled out of bed when i couldn&#8217;t stay in bed any longer, i baked a pan of brownies and ate one for breakfast, and i lazed about in my pajamas until well after noon. we sought air-conditioned spaces later and ended up at the two-story target and the movies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}